Tag: art

This year, I had the immense privilege to be part of the whip-smart volunteer team that made the CODAME ART+TECH Festival happen this year. June 4-7, 2018 brought four full days of workshops, performances, talks, screenings and installation art to the Midway in San Francisco.

The 2018 ART+TECH Festival, codenamed #ARTOBOTS, examined the sphere of robotics, automation, and artificial intelligence. Through art, discussion, play and performance, CODAME probes these potentials and examines the ways in which robots have infiltrated so many aspects of our daily lives.

As part of this project, I interviewed and wrote about just a few of the incredible artists bringing their work to the festival, all organized by curator Vanessa Chang. The goal of these articles was to promote the festival, while helping attendees get more out of the experience by engaging more deeply with the artworks, the themes, and the presenting artists.

Professor Laila Shereen Sakr, also known as VJ Um Amel, is fascinated with culture. In conversation, she returns often to the subject of how ideas bubble up from the underground and coalesce, how individuals come together to create community online, and how to preserve and document that process. [Read the article]

As part of my series with artists and speakers to be featured at the 2018 CODAME ART+TECH Festival in San Francisco, I recently interviewed interdisciplinary artist Yagiz Mungan.

Views of Illy, by Yagiz Mungan

Artist Yagiz Mungan creates work that blends VR/AR, sound/music, interaction, performance, virtual worlds and gaming. He is especially interested in generative strategies of creating visuals and sound, and ways to use technology to push the boundaries of human perception and emotional response. His work often aims to recontextualize familiar experiences, or addresses uncanny technological encounters in modern life.

Mungan holds an MSc in computer engineering and MFA in interactive arts, and has exhibited his work around the world. For the 2018 CODAME ART + TECH Festival, Mungan will be exhibiting a project called Illy, an AI that communicates via sound without language.

As part of an interview series with artists and speakers featured at the CODAME ART+TECH Festival [2018], I recently chatted with 3D artist Mark Klink.

head 3.034 detail 1, by Mark Klink, 2017.

This year’s CODAME ART+TECH Festival, codenamed #ARTOBOTS, examines the increasingly tangible sphere of robotics, automation, and artificial intelligence in the modern world. Through 4 days of installations, workshops, and lectures, this conference will showcase developments from the vanguard of art and technology.

Mark and I discussed everything from his background as a multi-occupation self-taught technologist and longtime multimedia artist, to his reactions to the state of pop culture as it depicts and relates to robots and artificial intelligence, two enduring themes in his work.

I recently returned home from my first-ever visit to Juneau, Alaska. Though it wasn’t an optimal time of year to visit, it was the time I had available, so I decided to go for it. I was eager to see my friend Katy (whose bravery in totally rebooting her life in a new place I admire so much) and to see some glaciers and Northern lights. Lucky for me, I got everything I wanted – close-up views of Mendenhall Glacier, a beautiful night sky light show, some refreshing hiking in the rain, and I even caught a glimpse of a moose. I’ll return one of these years in August, when the bears and salmon do.

Mendenhall lake and mist. Sometimes, as a photographer, you just get really, really lucky.

Moonrise is created, edited, and designed by Missy J. Kennedy, who I found and met online while combing the ferociously beautiful vastness of the feminist-artist-writer-internets. I’m so glad I did.

I’ve got a piece of writing in issue number 2. Find it in the deeply nostalgic and personal section called, “Our Grandmas, Ourselves.” Also, the print magazine is gorgeous and well-produced and you should definitely order a copy while they’re available.

San Francisco is known around the world for its quirky, colorful aesthetic and rich history. Just across the East Bay, Oakland is also bursting with creativity, with one of the highest concentrations of artists in the United States! If you’re an artist looking for places to show your work in the East Bay area, here are some 5 great resources that you should definitely have on your radar.